Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-232) and index

Durov's pig -- Hanswurst in exile -- Marx, Brecht, dialectics and satire -- Wedekind's circus world -- The clown who says yes: 'The Baden learning play' -- Heiner Mèuller's 'Heart play' -- The clown who says no: Brecht's 'Schweyk' and 'Conversations in exile' -- Waiting for Puntila: Brecht against Beckett -- 'Arturo Ui' and the politics of spectacle -- Brecht, Mayakovsky, Lazarenko -- Weiss and Handke: clowns after Brecht -- Theatre du Soleil's 'Mephisto': Hitler in the cabaret -- Lotte Goslar's 'Circus scene' -- Pierrot in the Great War: theatre workshop's 'Oh, what a lovely war!" -- Trevor Griffiths' 'Comedians' : Grock and anti-grock -- Dario Fo: the clown as counter-informer -- The jokers of Augusto Boal -- American folly: 'MacBird, ' The San Francisco mime troupe, El Teatro Campesino and the Plutonium players -- A day at the circus with bread and puppet theatre -- Trial by satire: from Brecht to the Green Party

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